CONTRACT WHEN NEEDED. Read the context carefully. Use my examples above, to help you. If you don’t know what a word means in Spanish, use spanishdictionary. com to look it up. It will help you better understand the sentences. Each sentence will either have “a” or “de” followed by el/ la/ los/ las.
Yo voy gimnasio para hacer ejercicio.

Mi familia es estado de Nueva York.

Mi mamá llega a la casa, trabajo, a las siete de la noche.